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Gabriel Francis Sciommarella, who was 37 at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty to robbery, forcible confinement and assault causing bodily harm in Lindsay court Thursday (Jan. 17).

Justice Lisa Cameron gave Mr. Sciommarella four-month concurrent jail sentences for each of the charges as well as three years probation, also concurrent. According to court documents, Mr. Sciommarella spent 16.5 months in pre-sentence custody.

Mr. Sciommarella was originally charged, alongside Jamie Vincent Francis, 34 of Toronto, Robert George Hislop, 44 of Mississauga and Michael James Powell, 43 of Toronto with:

Two counts of robbery with violence;

Two counts of forcible confinement;

Personating police Officer;

Uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm;

Assault causing bodily harm;

Two counts of assault with a weapon;

Assault;

Use an imitation firearm while committing an offence;

Mischief;

Theft under $5,000.

Mr. Sciommarella was also charged with unauthorized possession of a weapon and failing to comply with a recognizance.

Police allege that at about 2:42 p.m. the men drove up to a home on Sandhills Road in a grey Hummer, where they physically assaulted two people outside the house.

The men then took the victims into the house, forcibly confined them and ransacked the house before fleeing, police say.

Both victims were able to free themselves and call 911. One victim was transported to Ross Memorial Hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries and the other declined medical treatment.

Durham Regional Police stopped the Hummer on the outskirts of Port Perry, where the four men were arrested.

At the time, Constable Iain McEwan of Peterborough County OPP said the suspects were not known to the victims of the attack.

"It was just a random act," he said.

The other three accused in the case are scheduled appear again in Lindsay court March 18.